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HOW TO LIE TO PEOPLE: ACHIEVINGANONYMITY THROUGHDISINFORMATION AND DATA POISONING
[Part the First]BY: DIzzIE [antikopyright 2007]
Preamble
When providing information, the worst thing you could possibly do is give accurate, truthfuldata. This should be common sense. If it’s not, close this text and think about why it should be,then come back when you’re ready or fuck off for good. However, the recourse that many havechosen, the proverbial vow of silence, is no panacea. Actively choosing to refuse to provideinformation, to give the bloodhounds nothing, will make them uneasy, hungry, suspicious, and,of course, quite vicious. What one must then do is quite simple: give them a false trail to follow.In other words:
Lie to people. All the time. About everything.
Going further, create future lies.Lies that lie in hidden corners just waiting to be stumbled onto by the coming bloodhounds, whowill then think they’ve stumbled onto something genuine. Your goal must then be to proactivelymold pieces of shit into gold nuggets. Plant your buried scat treasure and watch the fuckers suck it down. The aim must always be to present the illusion of transparency, an ‘I’ve got nothing tohide’ hologram, if you will.In short: your goal is to go around the web planting poisonous seeds of disinformation, with theintention that others who will try to track you at a later date will stumble onto them and think them to be real. The rest of this brief guide will be about general tips for creating disinformationto preserve your anonymity, it is obviously hardly exhaustive, and is meant to serve as aspringboard for inspiring your own acts of data poisoning.
However, as this guide is operatingunder the impression that most people currently
do not 
actively engage in data poisoning,this guide also doubles as a stalker’s companion
. Pretty convenient, indeed.
Before You Begin
Before you’re ready to engage in proactive data poisoning, you first need to do a wee bit of  preliminary research. Pick a name for yourself, as well as a unique username (something thatwhen searched for, will only return your name, not 50 million others), email address, as well as a birthday, location, pets, family, hobbies, car, political affiliation, and other basic demographicinformation. Keep in mind that your intention with this data is that each nugget can and should be used to track you, that is indeed your goal in the creation of this false front (i.e., if your newusername is a reference to a television show which the real you would never watch, start postingon fan message boards and newsgroups for that show, this is discussed further in the sectionyou’re your peripheral identity later in this text).A key ingredient in the successful passing of illusion as reality is
consistency
. This means thatonce you pick your initial disinformative characteristics, you’ll have to stick with them for alllocales you later frequent (e.g., use the same username on all forums, and tell different people thesame lies). After you have the initial information, here are a few more things you might want to
 
take care of (again, these are just a couple examples to prod your own brain into thinking of more shit on its own):~ Find a few photos of some unpopular person on social networking sites like MySpaceor Facebook, or on public photo storage places akin to Flickr. These will now be
your
photos.Pick someone of average physical prowess, someone who doesn’t have too manyfriends/contacts listed, doesn’t live anywhere near you, doesn’t frequent the same web fora thatyou do, and, most importantly, someone whom you and any of your legitimate contacts are notaffiliated with in any way whatsoever.- Try opening the photo file in a text or hex editor. If it is an unmodified file takenwith a digital camera, you should see various nuggets of metadata imbedded in the file, such asthe date the picture was taken, the resolution/camera settings, and, most importantly, the cameramodel. This will now be your camera. Find a forum for this camera, or failing that, a forum for amateur photography, and make a few posts asking some basic questions about the camera.When someone then searches for you and examines the metadata of your images, your identitywill thus further be validated in their bloodthirsty, datahungry eyes.
 Any data match serves to validate your illusory identity, any data discrepancy serves to questionit.
- Once you have the photos, open them up and perform a minor modification suchas adding an extra pixel. This is to change the MD5 checksum of the image file. Each file has aunique number that can be shown by using programs likeChaosMD5(http://www.elgorithms.com/downloads/chaosmd5.php). By modifying the file, youare also modifying the MD5 checksum. This is done so that, should anyone later be performingcomparisons/searches by MD5, your stolen image will not be presented as a match, thereforeimproving the chances that your false identity will not be discovered.~If you wish to, create a phone number for yourself, there are plenty of free services suchaswww.j2.com which give you a free voicemail box and fax number. Often times the free services do not let you pick your own area code, in which case you will have to make sure thatyour location matches the area code. If your free number requires a call every X days to be keptactive, use a free service akin to www.phonemyphone.comto place the call. Websites such as http://www.allareacodes.com/provide lists of area codes and the states to which they belong,while sites likehttp://www.thedirectory.org/pref/allow you to locate the city within a state byusing the prefix (the first three digits after the area code). When performing reverse phonelookups on site likehttp://www.whitepages.com/10001/reverse_phoneor www.fonefinder.net, be aware that the phone service provider may also be visible. In keeping with our consistency motif,never contradict this data (with natural exceptions, such as if you’re stating that you recentlymoved from X to Y in your fake blog, thus implicitly explaining the geographical discrepancy of the phone number’s location and your present residence).
Creating the Core You
Once you have acquired what you feel is a sufficient amount of preliminary disinformation, it istime to start actively engaging in its proliferation; that is, the fun and tedious process of data
 
 poisoning. Ten years ago, I would’ve told you to create a personal homepage for yourself. Today,homepages are obsolete and unnecessary (though if you have the time, additional data poisoningcan’t hurt; that is, unless you half ass it). Instead, you should set up your core identity on socialnetworking sites like MySpace and Facebook, as well as on blog sites like LiveJournal andXanga. Create your personal pages using the fake data you generated in the step above: listingyour name, email, birth date, hobbies, favorite music, photos, and so on. These are known as thecore sites, because they will be the main websites that any bloodhound on your trail will discover first, and which will contain the greatest amount of information about you.
Creating the Periphery You
After you setup the core sites, you will need to extend your data poisoning to various peripheryoutposts to further entrench the legitimacy of your faux identity. Although the periphery you issecondary to the core, it is no less essential; indeed, perhaps more so. The role of the periphery isto dupe the meticulous bloodhound who will spend hours mining through search results,harvesting little shit nuggets here and there, and looking for any inconsistencies that mightsuggest duplicity. In other words, take the task of creating the periphery as seriously as the core. Now then, to create the periphery you must cannibalize upon your initial information. If you saidyou like a certain band, start posting on the message boards for that band, being sure to indicatethat you went to any relevant concerts close to your geographic area. If you said you have acertain exotic pet, start posting on newsgroups and message boards asking for advice on takingcare of said pet. Rinse and repeat for all other periphery components of your identity: your car,favorite book/author/movie/pornstar, favorite hobby, sport team, and so on.
Always post on allmessage boards with the same username
. This will make you easier to track, and make the bloodhound smile when ze thinks that ze’s just discovered that you not only like Korn, but alsohave a pet ferret and drive a pimped out Audi.And lest you’re by this point losing faith at the apparently humdrum meaninglessness of it all,keep in mind that there is no such thing as an insignificant detail. Every bit of information can be, and, indeed is, being used harvested and subsequently has the potential for being used for tracking you the fuck down. To give a (non)trivial example, someone who knows where you live,the car you drive, and the band you like, can then proceed to find you outside of a concert hall onthe night that your band’s playing. Copasetic?
Realtime Data Poisoning and Time Syncing
Once you have setup the core/periphery disinfo centres, your job isn’t quite done yet. Indeed,data poisoning is a persistent process around which you must adapt all of your everyday actions, both online and offline. Each time you chat with friends over instant messaging or IRC, you areleaking data. Comments about the weather, current events, even your speech mannerisms, allserve to betray your identity, and therefore must all be modified. You must then engage inrealtime data poisoning: consistently lying to anyone and everyone you communicate with abouteverything.An extension of realtime poisoning is time syncing. If you say you have a 9 to 5 job in time zoneX, then be sure that you’re idle during those times, or explicitly mention that you have Internetaccess from work/school to present a resolution to the apparent time conflict. Do this proactively,
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This is an awesome piece of work.

reply05 / 24 / 2008
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